‘This pie has all the right ingredients. The stories are clever, and the action moves smoothly from one plot-propelling crisis to the next. The whimsical pictures are the perfect accompaniment to the text. Children’s books with an artist’s touch, these books are flawlessly executed.’ IndieReader

　　★Simplified Chinese rights are sold.
　　★Every title in Pie Rats series are awarded, as follows:
　　Winner 2017 International Book Awards - The Golden Anchor.
　　Winner 2017 New Apple Book Awards - Child of the Cloud.
　　Winner 2016 Book Excellence Awards, Canada - The Island of Destiny.
　　Winner 2016 Beverly Hills Book Awards - The King’s Key, The Trophy of Champions.
　　Winner 2016 IndieReader Discovery Awards - The Trophy of Champions.
　　Winner 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards - The King’s Key.
　　Winner 2015 IndieReader Discovery Awards -The Island of Destiny.
　　Winner 2014 IndieReader Discovery Awards - The Forgotten Map.
　　★Side-line products also sell well, with 10,000 sets of clothes based on the characters in the series sold.
　　★In this series, the action moves smoothly from one plot-propelling crisis to the next, taking the reader on a swashbuckling adventure where danger and humour intertwine in true pirate fashion.
　　★Thematically, the books take a look at the meaning and importance of family through the desperate eyes of a young rat who has lost everything. Sub themes include friendship, loyalty, resilience and hope unbowed by despair.

　　6 titles in this series: The Forgotten Map, The King’s Key, The Island of Destiny, The Trophy of Champions, Child of the Cloud, The Golden Anchor

　　Whisker is a cyclone-surviving circus rat with a troublesome tail and a boat load of luck. When a strange ship pulls him out of the ocean, Whisker's new life as a Pie Rat apprentice begins. Welcome aboard the good ship Apple Pie - a peculiar pastry ship where cannons shoot mouldy pies, coloured pencils are used as peg-legs and the champion swords-rat fights with two scarlet scissor swords. The Forgotten Map is the first instalment in the Pie Rat series for children age 8+. It includes maps, diagrams and character sketches. Fast moving passages of text take the reader on a swashbuckling adventure where danger and humour intertwine in true pirate fashion. The book takes a look at the meaning and importance of family through the desperate eyes of a young rat who has lost everything.

　　Cameron Stelzer is an Australian author and illustrator with a passion for creating exciting children’s books and fostering a love of reading, writing and creativity in young people. He is one of Australia’s favourite children’s authors with books that engage, inspire and excite children.
　　Cameron’s books have won many awards including the American Fiction Awards (Juvenile Fiction), International Book Awards, IndieReader Discovery Awards, Book Excellence Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards.
　　Cameron is qualified with a Doctorate of Visual Arts, a Graduate Diploma in Education, and an Honours Degree in Fine Arts. Cameron lives in Brisbane with his wife and three daughters.